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Peter Higgs passes away: Nobel Prize winning scientist Peter Higgs breathed his last at the age of 94. Higgs, an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to hospital on Monday after his health deteriorated. After being brought home from the hospital, his health deteriorated again and he died.
He explained many important mysteries of the universe through the existence of the Higgs boson particle. Edinburgh University, while sharing information on Higgs' death, said that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs is no longer among us. He proposed the 'God particle' hypothesis, his theories help explain how matter was formed after the Big Bang.
According to the New York Times, Dr. Higgs was 35 when he joined the University of Edinburgh as an assistant professor in 1964. He suggested in 2012 the existence of a new particle that would explain how other particles acquire mass. After discovering the existence of the ghost, Higgs received a standing ovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Geneva.
Fabiola Gianotti, director general of CERN and former head of the ATLAS experiment, who helped discover the Higgs particle with Peter, said: “Peter was a special person, he had a very disciplined personality. He was a great teacher with great humility, who taught physics very well, understood it very deeply and shared it with the world.
Higgs was a Fellow and Companion of Honor of the Royal Society. He spent most of his career at the University of Edinburgh. He established the Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics in his honor in 2012. His wife Jody, a lecturer in linguistics, died in 2008. He has two sons, Chris and Johnny, his daughter-in-law Suzanne, and two grandchildren.